Sunday 18 March  2012

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str / 8.30pm

Entrance: Free

Screening: Black Sun

Black Sun
Director: Gary Tarn
Duration: 70’
Language: English

“It’s one of the boldest, most beautiful and haunting films to have appeared from anywhere... An extraordinary evocation”. Daily Telegraph

Black Sun, winner of many international awards tells the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a French artist and filmmaker living in New York, who was blinded during a violent assault in 1978. After the attack, Montalembert learned to cope with his despair and to go through life a new way, seeking to make ordinary things extraordinary. Defying expectation, this remarkable artist continued to travel the world alone, learning to navigate life in a new and beautiful way.

With this portrait of a man’s extraordinary reaction to a life-changing event, Tarn has created an expressionist film whose power lies in visualising a world from the perspective of the blind de Montalembert. Part- surivor’s testimony, part- philosophical meditation on the nature of perception, Black Sun is a celebration of the life that makes us see the world anew.

The Film won the Grand Prix of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and the Jury Award in Newport International Film Festival and Sarasota Film Festival in 2006.